The Laurel & Hardy Reboot | Forgotten Failures
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On this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back the failed 1999 reboot of Laurel & Hardy.
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I'm susprised they never considered using some of the scripts Stan Laurel wrote after Oliver Hardy passed away.
Right?! You'd think that this would be the PERFECT time to use them! I can only hope it's because they couldn't secure the rights to use that material from Stan Laurel's estate or whatever, and not just because of sheer incompetence.
They more than likely ignored them in favor of trying to promote someone else’s writing career, believing they might not have been “modern enough” without a hot new writing talent.
I blame Peter Molyneux.
As long as they get Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly to perform them. Wow Larry you pop up everywhere!
that would be the smart thing to do. but people in the movie industry arnt smart just look at the sequel trilogy.
The Actors who played Laurel and Hardy do a phenomenal job at recreating there characters. It's just a shame that they were placed with a poorly written script in terms of story.
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321bytor spelin pleece
Nope. They are awful. Two hacks cannot accurately portray comic geniuses. You're absolutely wrong.
@@fjccommish I'm not saying they stand to what the original duo were but as far as acting goes they did a pretty amazing job at getting the movements down to a tee.
I agree but why in modern time? It should've stay in 1940s. Smh
You can't remake something that was once in a lifetime...but you can preserve their films and shorts for future generations....And the man who did Oliver Hardy, my goodness he nailed the voice!!!!
Stan & Ollie with Coogan and O’Reilly was a great movie and both actors did a fantastic job recreating Laurel & Hardy’s mannerisms.
"I'll miss us when we're gone."
The difference was that the Coogan movie qas biographical.
It was not a great movie. It was a decent movie with a with inspired performances and some impressive behind the scenes moments. But overall it was mediocre drama that in days gone past would have been a two-part “television event”.
so will you
Damn right! This film is a truly great drama. Brought my best buddy to tears (don't tell anyone i told you) and the special edition Mediabook became a permanent addition to my Blu-ray collection.
I just love how in every single review, there's always something positive in his tone. It just makes the reviews that more endearing and a breath of fresh air to watch.
Thanks so much!
I agree. There's too much excessive negativity in most movie reviewer channels on UA-cam. It's refreshing to see someone that doesn't make his videos drenched in cynical, mocking irony.
@@HatsOffEntertainment Where's Part 3 of your original Laurel and Hardy mini-docs, after "The Feature Presentation"?
It's kind of weird how this and The Three Stooges ended up trying to reinvigorate their respective brands with movies that as sloppy tributes, but with weird plots, and impersonations that almost get it right.
The actors they got to play the Stooges in that were all skilled and knew how to portray the characters well, it’s good that they stuck to their guns and got impersonators to play the stooges in that instead of getting Jim Carrey to play Curley like they originally intended
I agree with y'all. It's just odd to realize it isn't the only one to do this.
As a Stooges fan, I was reluctant to watch the movie. Years later it was on TV and finally watched and I was really impressed on how good the Farrelys handled and even updated the characters. Maybe if we wouldn't have had such disdain for a reboot just for the nature of them, we would at least have a good series of new shorts today instead of just one underrated movie.
I thought The Three Stooges 2012 movie was pretty decent.
@@OM19_MO79 They had to put raunchy material in it. I thought it failed to get a new generation of kids into the stooges
So, is this film the reason why the characters of Laurel & Hardy, could be seen around Universal Studios back in the 90's? No joke, that's a childhood memory, there are pictures of my brother and I together with some of the fictional characters that would be walking around the park - like Alvin from Alvin And The Chipmunks, Laurel & Hardy were either handing out, or just messing around with a cart of pumpkins, and I remember two women as the Xena warrior Princess and some other chick (I got my picture taken with them, besides Alvin). Man, the 90's Universal Studios was the best time. Don't get me wrong, I like Harry Potter, but FUCK ALL THAT SHIT they added to Universal Studios - bring me back "Back To The Future: The Ride", "Terminator 2 3D", "E.T. The Ride" and a bunch of other stuff I may have been able to see or ride once or twice, but will never have a chance to again now :( Also The Mummy: The Ride, that was really awesome!
No. This was made at the dawn of the 90s, way after they were established at Universal. And also, Universal had nothing to do with this film whatsoever. But a small budget, independent company called Coast Entertainment.
I feel dirty inside that this was the way I was actually introduced to Laurel & Hardy and really loved this film as a kid and went on to watch the classics, without it I might have never discovered them
Well then , at least this film did something good by bringing you to THE REAL LAUREL AND HARDY
"Hey, is the framerate off?"
"Nah man, this is Africa."
I miss the frames down in Aaaaaaafrica.
@@mahna_mahna bwahahaha
Stan's accent is hard to do, He was from Ulverston which was Lancashire at the time, Cumbria now. The accent is half way between the 2. Then add 50 or so years in the US. Coogan had a head start being from Lancs. I'm from Preston, my grandad moved to the States in the 60's he had a very similar accent. The humour is mostly Stan's as well something else he brought from Lancashire. Someone from the US would struggle to replicate it unless they had lived here for a while.
The accents are the best done item in this.
This honestly seems like a waste of two extraordinarily perfect performances. It does seem like it would have worked better set in the early 20th century though. Their anachronistic outfits make them seem more like fish out of water than like goofballs.
Plus Hardy’s moustache would probably turn a lot of heads in the modern age
@@mrcritical6751 Heads not worth bothering about if they're that easily outraged. Let hotheads burn themselves out.
I think they probably didn't make it a period piece because it would have cost more money.
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@@dildonius Pretty childish of you.
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These two guys can never ever be "rebooted" forget about it.....
These two actors were FANTASTIC! Talk about nailing it.
Today I learned that Balky and Chuck from Ernest made a Laurel and Hardy movie in South Africa in 1999. The fever dream that is 2020 continues...
I knew i recognised them from somewhere.
If only 2020 really had just been one big fever dream.......
Four-months-ago you could not have known just how absurd it would get. And 2020 has three more months remaining to fuck with us.
The gods must be crazy.
Gailard Sartain was on "Hee Haw" for most of its run, and on some episodes of the post-divorce "Sonny and Cher Show".
I never know why they try to reboot old franchises or series, but like keep the characters locked in the time period they are in but then thrown in modern times.
Like laurel and hardy were from the 20s to the 50s, yet you want to do a reboot where you keep everything about them, even their outfits, but put them in modern times.
They would make more sense if they made them as dumb time travel movies, where they come and interact with future nonsense. Or they would make more sense if they rebooted it, yet kept the time period of the movie and characters the same (like setting is in the 30s and characters are too).
It just comes off as really dumb and flops nearly every time
Because damnit it worked for the Bradys
Gailard Sartain does a spot on Georgia accent, difficult for non Southerners to ace it but he got Ollie's accent perfectly
+BigBlueFan1987 IKR,and he's an native oklahoman.
Those impersonations were absolutely uncanny. Fair play.
It looks like the two lead actors did a good job. In so many movies, it's the writing that falls short. We don't REALLY care if the CGI is less than great, if the writing and performances are great. These clips made me want to see the movie.
The two actors playing Laurel and Hardy were very good in this video. But no one can replace the real Laurel and Hardy.
I watched Perfect Strangers every week as a kid and loved Balki. I did not recognize Bronson Pinchot as Laurel until you pointed him out.
Cousin laddy!! Haha same 😊
He was a great Balki. He was an awful Stan Laurel.
That show was the worst
Perfect Strangers was great. I still watch it.
Laurel and Harry are my favourite tv stars of all time, Recreating anything is just never the same as the original, Seeing as we will never get to see the originals anymore I would have liked to have seen a series of these movies in the 80's.
This movie was not "all" that bad! It was a fun film all and all and it was good to see "they" were trying to revive the Laurel & Hardy characters for a new generation. The actors playing Stan & Ollie were not bad at all! It wasn't a very good script but I wish more movies with them as the Stan & Ollie characters would of been made.
Watch Stan and Ollie. Reilly and Coogan absolutely nail the performances along with the chemistry and love the two had for each other.
Thanks for this! I'm a lifelong L&H fan who didn't know about this film. Actually the taxi gag at the end did make me laugh out loud!
I remember seeing this on VHS in the early 2000s and really enjoying it. It seemed to disappear after that though. I could never find the video anywhere again after that. I think the actors did a great job, and I think that making it more of a tribute or celebration of the original than trying to pass it off as the original characters played by different actors was a good idea. I still hold out hope that someone will make Stan's last scripts, either with a similar tribute Laurel And Hardy act or perhaps they could adapt them for a new double act. Stan doesn't get anywhere near the respect he deserves as a comedic genius. People just think of him as a performer, but they forget that he wrote and/or directed so many films too.
When I was a kid there was a full hour of L&H at 6:00 every Saturday morning. On school days my mom had to drag me out of bed at 7:00, but on Saturdays I was up at 5:45, fixing a bowl of cereal to munch on while I watched L&H. Laughter is a great way to star a day.
Those actors were surprisingly good. It's a shame I haven't seen the movie yet.
I recently purchased the complete collection of Laurel and Hardy, including their foreign releases. They were absolutely brilliant and can’t wait to see their work in entirety.
I remember this on VHS when I was little. I think I watched like the first 15 minutes with my family and my parents turned it off in disgust. I'd classify it at as a truly "Dumb" Dumb Comedy, as opposed to L&H's "Intelligent" Dumb Comedies. Looking at some of these clips, the actors seem capable and there could have been something to some of the joke premises . . . but this really suffers from Laurel's lack of direction, and let's face it: Stanley's comic direction made Laurel and Hardy great. Bronson's comic timing is off as he plays it like a TV sitcom, and this is due to poor timing. Consider the joke here when Hardy says "you're going to protect me" and Stanley immediately replies "but who's going to protect me?". The actual Stan Laurel would have put a well placed comedic pause in between those two lines so that Stan could look around with a puzzled look on his face as he slowly worked out the mathematics of the first statement, maybe he'd start as if to say something then stop, and then go back to thinking before coming to the second line of realization. Sartain is good but completely lacks Hardy's believable anger and frustration, which serves to heighten the situational comedy. Jim Varney and Stan Laurel had the natural comedic timing as actors for their characters . . . Pinchot attempts but misses, sometimes by a lot. Also, it is just weird (in a not funny way) to have Laurel and Hardy characters wandering around in clothes from the 20s/30s in the 1990s. It's like setting Hamlet in a 90s megacorporation where everyone is wearing business suits but Hamlet is walking around in Elizabethan clothing . . . actually that might be funny, but only because I've augmented the absurdity and put thought into it, unlike the 0 thought that went into L&Hs costume choice in this movie.
This was a bad idea from the start: There is only "one" Laurel and Hardy! That being said, I did enjoy the biopic "Stan and Ollie" that came out in 2018. I felt it was well cast.
I though there was two of them?
@@ventarfield7115 that's why he said "one" in quotation marks.
@Glen M Why is there a need to inadequately copy perfection and past greatness. Why endless remakes, re-boots and rehash? Why not something new? Toodifficult and risky eh?
Me too. They should try The New Adventures Of Laurel and Hardy again with Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. It could work extremely well now.
@@CineScarborough No, as great as Coogan and Reilly were in Stan and Ollie I think making a new Laurel and Hardy makes more sense as a biopic than a reboot.
These are always such high quality videos, man. Thanks for keeping us all entertained during all this.
Now I want to see this film, if only to watch the leads and see if they maintained their impressions as well as in the clips. Their affection and respect come through their performances. I remember the cartoon from when I was young and the plot synopsis certainly sounds more like a Saturday morning cartoon than a 90-minute feature. They might as well have brought in Scooby and the gang to round out the cast.
I agree! I'm curious to see this film now too.
The thing most attempted recreations of L&H get wrong is the incredible sense of timing they had in their gags. Part of this was Stan's extra work in editing the films and timing laughs in tryouts. The boys also mostly underplayed their parts, without the frenetic pace of most silent (and later sound) comics -- ideas occurred slowly to Stan. You could watch his face change as a thought percolated through his brain. Ollie's slow burn was his trademark, as well as breaking the fourth wall. This slow underplayed style made the eruption all the funnier when it came. Look at the way they would build up a gag, play with it, then make the payoff. Take the scene in "Towed in a Hole" where Ollie is painting the mast and Stan is trapped behind it belowdecks. You know what is going to happen, eventually, but the process of getting there is not rushed. And there is no tricky dialogue necessary. No complex plot, no jokes, no slapstick for the sake of slapstick.
It's not enough to look like them; the trick is acting and thinking like them, and for directors and writers to understand that. Harmon certainly never did.
Even though I was not aware about the original duo of Laurel and Hardy, I loved this movie as a kid. I want to thank you for reminding me of it, it surely brings up amazing memories :)
Speaking of Sgt Bilko, I'd love an Almost Cult Classic episode on the film! It's been one of my faves since I was a kid and was surprised it was a bomb. Always wondered if I was the only fan of it!
Make the bad man stop!
I liked it too - Steve Martin and Phil Hartman were funny in it
Everybody Army sing! "I CAN HARDLY FEEL MY LEGS!!! (I CAN HARDLY FEEL MY LEGS!) DO ME A FAVOR AND KILL ME NOW!!! (DO ME A FAVOR AND KILL ME NOW) SOMETHING SOMETHING RHYMES WITH LEGS!!! (SOMETHING SOMETHING RHYMES WITH LEGS) MY LIFE IS OVER ANYHOW..." Yes, a fave in our household as well. A few catchphrases have stuck with us over the years, such as "One. We're going for, One." Funny film.
i saw it in the theatre with a buddy in the army...he died ...i liked it but not like he did ha
Sgt Bilko was hilarious!!! I tried watching the show after the movie and I just had the hardest time trying to figure out why people hated the movie.
Ever see Chuck McCann do his Laurel and Hardy impersonations....simply amazing.
this movie is fine and works well for what it is. I didn't watch a lot of original Laurel & Hardy as a kid, so this was sorta my introduction to the duo though I had heard about them before the movie. It's a competent film for what it is, it may have it's flaws but it works well and I found it funny.
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Thanks for the support!
I think a better plot for this would’ve been having Laurel and Hardy working as security guards at the museum and the mummy is stolen whilst they’re on watch so they have to get it back, that’s way more simple and could lead to some fun set pieces whilst not relying on a big budget for special effects and costumes to create supernatural entities
I'm not sure how you 'reboot' a deceased comedy duo. Isn't that just copying likenesses and material? Material I understand, but you can't have a 'new' Laurel and Hardy, it doesn't make any sense.
I absolutely agree. But considering how Hollywood keeps making reboot after reboot due to lack of new, original ideas and preferring cashing in on old brands, I wouldn't be surprised to see another L&H reboot in the near future.
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Same here!
There are so many gags and mannerisms that seemed to be captured pretty well, but didn't have the same timing and delivery of our down on their luck duo. Keep it up!
surprisingly good impersonations, I think I'll look for a copy of this.
It's the time period that throws me off. They are dressed as they were in the 1920's while being in the 1990s. The movie would have worked better if the story too place in the 1920s or whenever most of their original movies took place. Also, they could have done a "fish out of water" style of story with them time travelling to 1999 and them learning how to adapt but failing to do so.
That reminds me of The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. The Bradys were still dressed like it was still the 1970s while everyone around them were dressed like the 1990s. They also referenced different episodes of the series in both films.
@@melissacooper4282 my head cannon about that was their house was in a time bubble that kept repeating
Joe, I'm enjoying your channel so much. Excellent video essays. Thank you for not drowning the material in crappy so-called music.
Being a longtime Laurel and Hardy fan, this was something I definitely took with a grain of salt when I first rented it from a local Blockbuster Video in the Fall of 1999. It definitely was a tough thing to swallow, but yes like you mentioned, it felt like a movie made for the fans like myself who even at the time of being 16 years old hadn't seen anything new or rereleased for the classic shorts/features. I remember that it was put together by the same people who worked on the Ernest films and thought, well that's clearly my loyalty showing as an Ernest fan, I may enjoy just about anything that those people put out. Although to this day, I still haven't managed to watch (And I'm sure you will include or feature this in a future video!) 'Dr. Otto and The Riddle Of the Gloom Beam'!
I eventually recorded this off HBO when they did a random afternoon showing of it during 2001 I believe.
I’ve never heard of this one. Thank you for another great video. This is becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep up the good work
I remember wen this movie hit the cable movie channels. Yeah, it was a bad idea, but I give credit to Sartain and Pinchot for their performances. They did a great job at capturing Laurel and Hardy.
I've never seen this before. Those impersonations are sensational.
My father is a DIE HARD Laurel and Hardy fan and so I grew up watching them nearly every day. I recall this film as a child, I must have been 10 years old and already extremely familiar with the original films and shorts. I thought it was a fun and silly movie, the actors nailed the characters but the plot was definitely odd... It felt like a Scooby-Doo plot starring Laurel and Hardy... But I still enjoyed it as a tribute and a fun new experience with L&H.
Watching it again recently I am even more impressed by the portrayals. The characters feel right but the plot alienates the overall feel. If you have an open mind and accept it as a silly little movie with lovable characters you'll enjoy it, don't take it too serious, we will always have the original L&H films to enjoy.
You've got a new fan and a new subscriber for that matter. Keep on making these awesome docu-minis and brief looks at forgotten stuff. It's very entertaining.
gailard sartain one of the most underrated entertainers of our time .
Mazeppa was in this? Holy cow...
@Herbert B. Bondsh "HEADQUARTERS, THIS IS CAR 3!! REQUESTING BACK-UP!! WE'RE BEING ASSAULTED BY..............eggs."
Here's the thing I don't get about these kinda reboots. They take 30/40's humor and simply repeat it in the modern age. They even go as far as make them dress the same. So even if the performance and jokes land, there's a disconnect. They are already out of time. If they really want to do this, why not do it as a period piece?
I think Bronson Pinchot was a seriously underrated actor. His parts in Beverly Hills Cop and especially True Romance are pretty brilliant. You should review another forgotten failure starring him and John Larroquet, Second Sight.
My late pal Chuck McCann was a friend of Stan's, and the many commercials he made with the great Jim McGeorge were a tribute blessed by Stan before his passing. Chuck said privately that Mr. Laurel would roll over in his grave if he had seen what Larry Harmon made of their legacy, and I can't help but to agree. Here you can see Chuck performing as Ollie with another actor I'm sure many of you know and love. ua-cam.com/video/b1YiGo_KYFY/v-deo.html
This channel is growing fast and with good reason. Awesome content!!
Never knew so much went into this Laurel and Hardy movie! Thank you for this video and for bringing awareness to the comedic duo! Personally as a kid, I was more into Abbot and Castello but thats thanks to the Looney Tunes parodied shorts!
I watched this movie after watching a lot of the original shorts and movie and I really do get why this movie rubbed people the wrong way. There's just something off about how Stan and Ollie (or their nephews) are portrayed and this and it doesn't really catch the same sort of love that the two characters had. For one thing I noticed Ollie didn't come off as having the same sort of arrogant charm to him. He was this big tall man who had a refined Southern charm to him and while he did act like a jackass at times you can't help but love him because of how he used his words and spoke; he was smooth. Stan was sweet natured but ditzy and didn't speak that much. When he did he held the same sort of charm that Ollie did thanks to his mannerism and, yes I will admit this, his amazing British accent. A Southern American gentleman and a Brit. It was wonderful.
When I watched this movie, I felt that Stan talked way too much and his dizziness was played too thick and Ollie came off as just more cranky than anything else without any of the charm. They were more OBNOXIOUS than funny and they didn't play off well with the world they were in. As you mentioned in the review, the story feels more like an Abbott and Costello plotline and it does. A lot of the movies that Ollie and Stan were in were more grounded in reality with the situations amped up thanks in part to their actions. Sure, they had shorts where something weird happened but it wasn't the main focus of their library. If anything, I could see the two trying to get into some business venture since Ollie was always trying to find ways to make money usually using Stan as a testing dummy for the hard work while he handled the words and maybe that's just it. The two didn't feel like they were the driving force in the story. And the whole explanation that the two were their nephews didn't make sense and was pointless. It didn't add anything it and feels like it was dropped out of nowhere as an excuse to avoid questions and criticism from the audience. It just didn't work sadly.
Granted, even with all of this, it's not the worst thing I've seen and I enjoyed your retrospective of it going into the production of it which was more interesting than the movie itself. The more I think about it, the more it comes off that this may have done better as a straight period piece comedy movie or if they did update it, they could have handled the idea of the main characters be their nephews and actually have that be a part of the plot rather than something that is forgotten a second later.
Awesome to see another 90s born Laurel N Hardy fan! I had a Chaplin Bday cake. Great content!
I love the line that this came when a bunch of big screen reboots of classic comedies was all the rage. The irony is that none of those reboots was at all successful. Comedy reboots are nearly impossible to get right, you can't replace the timing/delivery/charisma of a comedian.
Seeing this video made me want to watch the film which I just got done watching as I make this comment it’s free to watch on amazon prime. Regardless of it not being such a well received film I still found it enjoyable and entertaining yeah it’s not Laurel and Hardy the actual people but them as characters portrayed by actors I still liked how the actors did in there portrayal. Maybe not like the actual comedy duo but I would watch this film again if I ever felt in the mood for it. Thank you for showing me this film exists.
Next to Steve Coogan, Bronson also did an honorable job portraying Stan Laurel
I was excited when I heard of this movie and I watched it with my kids, whom I had raised to appreciate Laurel and Hardy. The film flopped with us, too although we were impressed with the performances. When the Three Stooges movie came out, I didn't bother. I think the classic comedians should be left alone. Those who really pay homage to them the most are those who preserve their films so they don't whither away. After nearly a century, (some of the silent films surpassed 100 years) they stand on their own and are still gaining new fans as technology makes them available to more people.
Very well made video. You show appreciation rather than criticism, a very good review!
I had no idea this even existed until watching this video.
I know the two actors (the fact it was the same director of the Ernest movies was odd)
But this seems exactly the kind of stuff that got lost in the shuffle in the late 90s early 2000s.
And I can see exactly why.
Stan and Ollie is a much better Laurel and Hardy film. It's a great tribute
For sure!
And it's really nice that it focused a lot more on their twilight years.
I remember watching the reboot movie on HBO in 1999/2000 when I was 2/3 years old. I loved it and Ive been a fan ever since.
Sometimes the best things in life are the things you remember.
I think you should do a video on the biopic too and why it flopped at the box office. I personally watched it and fell asleep in the movies but still was captivated at the sadder scenes towards the end
Really enjoying these videos. Cheers!
Love your videos. Keep 'em comin', but don't burn out. I wanna be watching new videos in 5, 10 years. :)
Hear hear!!
Never heard of this film but you did a great job describing it. Excellent.
As an Italian fan of Laurel & Hardy I admit I never heard of this ill-fated reboot. Thanks for the video.
I never knew this movie existed. Which seems to have been a blessing.
You are on fire lately, sir! Great work on this channel!
That's amazing you had a Laurel and Hardy birthday cake. Fantastic video!
The performances are fantastic. And I do like that "Follow that limo" bit.
Eva shame that it failed. I would LOVE to see a reboot of the reboot. This one looked VERY well done and stayed true to original franchise paying tribute.
Other than the cheesy plot, it’s really too bad that this was the only time these two specific actors played Stan and Ollie, they were REALLY good, and I think way better than the newer actors who played them in the 2018 movie, they should of brought these two actors for them to play them again back in the flashback scenes in that movie when they were younger, what a shame. :(
It feels more like a 3 stooges movie and laurel and hardy happened to be in it
The 3 stooges movie was a little better lol
It feels like they stole the script for an unmade Abbot and Costello movie and replaced then with Laurel and Hardy
It feels more like a Scooby-Doo movie than a Laurel and Hardy movie.
@@JaredGriffiths2000 ironically there was a Scooby-Doo episode where Laurel and Hardy were featured in it. I don't know who provided their voices for that cartoon.
@@mrcritical6751 nail on the head
Loving these Forgotten Failures vids!
Bronson Pinchot is so good with accents. I listened to his narration of a series of books called the Grimnoir Chronicles, and he is so great with all the various characters' nationalities and accents.
I'm really glad I stumbled upon this channel; your videos are excellent and cover pretty uncommon topics! Along these same lines, is there any chance you'll cover the Farrelly Bros' Three Stooges reboot someday?
I think they did a good job with casting the two
Love how they use the phrase “some bozo” considering the context
That “laurel and hardy” birthday cake is so cute! And you look so cute and happy!
Thank you! It was a chore for my parents to locate a bakery that offered it.
That cake looks so cool! They’re even In they’re Hanna-Barbera forms!
@@HatsOffEntertainment That was another nice mess you gotten them into! Hmmphh!
What did you think of Rob Reiner's Merton and Hayes?
Blues Brothers were more adequate follow up into L&H's legacy.
"Blues Brothers 2000" was a dumpster fire.
I vaguely remember this happening, but for whatever reason I thought it was even more recent.
Thanks for the upload. The only way this movie still works is if you saw it as a kid and now it has the immovable layer of nostalgia on it for you. Which is fine. Otherwise, all it did for me is make me go re-watch the irreplaceable team.
Thanks for watching!
I'm going to have to check out your other Laurel and Hardy videos. I'm completing a collection of their films on Blu-Ray and DVD and decided to add this on DVD after watching it on Amazon Prime Video. (So if anyone else wants to see it, there it is.) I agree, it's more of a loving tribute than a cash grab, even if it's not the best executed film.
Thanks for the vid. I don't remember this existing, but To be fair, in 1999 I was 23 years old, and met my now wife at the time of this release.
never heard of this before thanks for sharing :)
I love forgotten failures.
Hang on, so they're playing the nephews of Stan and Ollie who inexplicably have the same names as both their uncles?
I remember seeing this as a kid but I swear to god I thought it had Nathan Lane and Lee Evans. But I think I might have mixed that up with mouse hunt. I swear I remember seeing them in outfit though
Mouse Hunt is criminally underrated.
@@ReglazeRX Hell yes it is! It wasn't until recently that I found out that a lot of people don't like it. That movie is comedy gold.
@@NavySharkz It gets no love in a lot of circles.
Such a shame.
@@ReglazeRX Fo real! 🤔😔
you can never do a movie about stars like them with even the greatest actors impersonating them. you can only do Documentaries... same for: the Three Stooges, Andy Kaufman (as we saw), Abbot and Costello, W.C. Fields, Rodney Dangerfield...these are but a few add your own.
This movie came out two years ago and I didn't even know it existed till right now.
You're right, I had no idea this ever existed. I did love Gailard Sartain in all the Ernest movies though...my favorite being "Ernest goes to Camp", he's frigin hysterical.
Wow - Never knew about this movie, until I realize it came out right when I started college.
Before then, any and all type of comedy/cartoon adaption (Addams Family, Flintstones, Bilko, Beverly Hillbillies, Casper, Car 54 Where Are You? etc) - good and bad was good by me LOL thanks to cable and video stores.
Judging from their performances seen in this video, I'll search it out of possible - but similar to the Stooges movie, maybe they should have started with shorts/specials and built up towards full length movies from that just like the actual comedy teams (?)
And thanks for explaining about Larry Harmon - I'd see his name on old Laurel and Hardy comic books in shops and wonder why it was "Larry Harmon's Laurel & Hardy" (had me thinking maybe it was a competing product to actual legitimate Laurel & Hardy comic books. Thanks again!
you simply cannot reboot laurel and hardy.
There's only one laurel and hardy pair
I remember this movie! I enjoyed it as a child myself. Particularly the scenes with the biker in the jail... which, actually, are among the only scenes I can remember from it aside from a general 'this was pretty enjoyable' feel of it.